We were in the oval office, in conversation with a foreign leadersays JD Vance. The discussion was complicated. It was at the start of his entry into office. On the desk, there was nothing more than a strange wooden box with a large red button. I said to myself: “It is certainly not the kind of button on which you have to press. »» Suddenly, he puts the conversation on silent, then looks at me and said to me: “It doesn’t run well at all. »» And he presses the red button while exclaiming: “Nuclear!” »» Two minutes later, he returns, a light coca in hand: “It was not nuclear, just the button for Coca Light. »»
The crowd is hilarious when the vice-president JD Vance tells the meeting this anecdote supposed to explain what it is to work with Donald Trump. We still suspect that the atmosphere is not so playful every day. In particular in recent weeks when the American president, if we believe his tweets, has experienced intense emotional phases … In the end, he stopped war between Israel and Iran. On his own, not quite, but since the time he had taken the pilgrim’s stick of the Peace Man, that deserved to be greeted. He did it after bombing Iran with GBU-57, fourteen bombs in all, dropped by B-2 bombers. It had been years since he had this plan in mind, the Fordo site in particular. During his first mandate, he explained his intention with the help of a model of the site to Israeli guests at the White House. Eliminate Iranian military nuclear under the most perforating bombs ever designed, Trump believed it hard as iron. For him, the operation was crowned with success and, as for all that he accomplishes, “Hammer of midnight” (this is the name of the operation) was commented on by him on his Truth Social network. Experts think that nothing indicates that the bombs have destroyed all the facilities. His chief of staff, General Dan Caines, believes that it will take weeks to assess the impact of strikes.
The end of the match
This decision of the American president was first considered a betrayal among his faithful from Maga (Make America Great Again). Didn’t Trump showed himself up as the president who would never engage his country again in unnecessary and costly military adventures? Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, faithful of the early hours, were responsible for making him understand that he could lose everything by choosing this path and that the movement that brought him to power could disintegrate. So, after a rise in power, in parallel with an acceleration of the Israeli strikes which seemed to mean that the United States would engage alongside Israel, he struck and then immediately whistled the end of the match.
The Iranians retaliated, symbolically and, while the ceasefire was announced by Trump, the latter began to praise: “They fought with bravery. »» He seemed to be delighted that the Iranians warned him of their response. It remained to convince the Israelis to stop in their turn. It was more difficult. None of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s objectives have been achieved: no certainty about the elimination of the nuclear threat, no change in regime. Above all, for Israel, there was also the feeling that the iron dome had revealed some weaknesses during this war which saw Iran hit the Hebrew state as never a country had done so far. To make a good measure, Trump then praised Netanyahu, asking Israeli justice to abandon the proceedings against him.
True to his style, Donald Trump disturbed his world
During the twelve days of war, we sometimes had the feeling that reality escaped Trump and that the whole world took him for a madman. Then he managed to calm the game. He was able to go to Europe on Wednesday, to the top of NATO, where the 32 countries, members of the Alliance, with the exception of Spain, agreed to bring their military budget to 5 %. It was done almost naturally. Trump, on this occasion, designated his opponent, Putin, with whom he is “Difficult to negotiate”. Note that he is always talking about negotiating, which is pretty good sign. Before the summit, he was also mild towards China, authorizing it without risking sanctions to obtain oil in Iran. Trump knows how to be magnanimous. He went far. True to his style, he disturbed his world. But, ultimatelythe ceasefire holds, and this conflict that was judged at high risk, perhaps more than Ukraine, has faded. After having lost it by hitting Iran one evening space, Donald Trump will have recovered his title from President of Peace with a fanfare.
